{"id":77251,"date":"2017-06-07T03:18:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/protecting-your-published-story-maps\/"},"modified":"2018-04-10T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:53:16","slug":"protecting-your-published-story-maps","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/sharing-collaboration\/protecting-your-published-story-maps","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Your Published Story Maps"},"author":5441,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37511],"tags":[33631],"industry":[],"product":[36821,36551,36611],"class_list":["post-77251","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharing-collaboration","tag-delete-protection","product-configurable-apps","product-arcgis-online","product-story-maps"],"acf":{"short_description":"When you share and promote a story map with the public you want to make sure it stays up and running as long as you intend it to be avail...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>When you share and promote a story map with the public you want to make sure it stays up and running as long as you intend it to be available. But accidents happen, there&#8217;s always a small possibility that you, or someone else (with administrative privileges), could accidentally delete your public content.<\/p>\n<p>Read on to learn a few simple things you can do to help avoid that Friday afternoon call from your boss asking why the story map embedded in your website&#8217;s home page is no longer loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dayne-topkin-867851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1493\" height=\"807\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Be organized<\/h2>\n<p>First, keep your content organized. Use folders to collect and separate the\u00a0<em>draft\/working<\/em> and <em>final<\/em> versions of apps, maps, and layers that you publish. Label folders so you can easily identify which ones contain items that have been shared with everyone and promoted and which ones are still in-progress. You can prefix or suffix folder names with &#8220;public,&#8221; &#8220;final,&#8221; &#8220;shared,&#8221; &#8220;draft,&#8221; or whatever works for you and your team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aleksi-tappura-669-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3885\" height=\"1005\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Lock it down<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s strongly recommended that you\u00a0<strong>enable delete protection<\/strong> on any content you&#8217;ve shared and promoted publicly. 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